City Builder Volume 5: Tradesman Places

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City Builder Volume 5: Tradesman Places is the fifth offering in a series of 11 complementary books designed to help guide Game Masters through the process of creating exciting and compelling urban areas and places within them for their campaigns. It is a universal resource that is not specific to any specific game system and is intended to be compatible with the needs of almost any ancient, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, or fantasy milieu.

Its contents include:

An Introduction that describes the scope of the series and how to use the material in this volume;

One to three Adventure Hooks tying in with each described sort of place.

This download includes low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions of its cover surfaces, low- and high-resolution versions of its interior pages, and a text-only version of its interior pages. Its layout and design has also been slightly modified from that of previous volumes in response to comments from readers and in order to make it even more user-friendly.

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This is indeed an excellent product, from an excellent series. In fact these are the only folks in the industry who presently have anything like it on the market; I found this while looking for a copy of Chaosium's classic 'Cities' (of which I owned [...]

This fifth volume in the City Builder series focuses on Tradesman Places. Though five are detailed; Apothecaries, Breweries, Livery Stables, Mills, and Slave Pens, you can easily find other tidbits for more locations (ie. the brewery mentions the coope [...]

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